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Angolan and Nigerian drug syndicates target poor Namibian women

Angolan and Nigerian drug lords are recruiting poverty-trapped young Namibian women as drug mules and in some cases are even tipping off authorities about them so that drug carriers with larger shipment scan slip through unnoticed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Read more

Deputy Education Minister spells out options for last year's Grade 10 failures

A whopping 6 000 Grade 10s nationally only failed by three points or less last year, while nearly 3 500 pupils failed dismally. The Deputy Minister of Education David Namwandi last week .

 

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A said sight indeed

Bernabé Blaauw took this picture of a dead Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) that washed up on the shore at Langstrand on Monday.

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Summer count reveals less birds than expected

 Weather at the Coast . . .

 
 

 

                                                                                                                                                               
The annual summer bird count took place on Saturday with 50 volunteers who helped to count the birds on a large part of the Ramsar Site in Walvis Bay while 30 volunteers completed the count on Sunday.

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 Zucketüte tradition makes a happy firs day of school


A peaceful demonstration, led by Lucky Gaseb and Stanley Maendo last week, highlighted the unhappiness of Swakopmund residents regarding a proposed new underground parking development.

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Opinion piece:  Obama's American re-election battle leaves the rest of us further out in the cold

                                                                                                                                                                           What has become increasingly clear from both President Barack Obama's State of the Union Speech this week and responses from his arch-political rival, the Republican Party, is that the developing world in general and Africa in specific have been placed even more on the back-burner as they prepare to slug it out ahead of America's presidential election in November.

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The warm a heart project

                                                                                                                                                                          Swakopmund Youth with a Vision, (SYV) is a group of young people that is drawing on their capabilities, skills and knowledge as a unit with the objective to bring about a change to the society they come from.

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Welwitschia retirement Park


Residents residing at the Welwitschia Senior Park, mainly rely on sponsorships from entities as a result of them living on a self-catering basis. The Park, which is a state owned centre, has a long process whereby individuals wanting to become a resident are put on a waiting list.

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Walvis Bay court proceedings

       
Read more on coastal court proceedings...
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